I guess this is different from what I expected - usually landscape and description from you, but this works equally well. I like the way you started the first 4 lines with d (not sure if it was deliberate?) which produces a lingering effect echoing the message of the poem.

November: Come to think of it you seem more like a painter than a poet to me, every one of your poems is a picture. I wonder whether you are really describing something you see or converting a state of mind into a scene of nature?

Schwarz-Weiß: Come to think of it you seem more like a painter than a poet to me, every one of your poems is a picture. I wonder whether you are really describing something you see or converting a state of mind into a scene of nature?

Although I don't quite like the way you've put them all together (it means i have to read too much German in one go! :P), it is very satisfying to see them grouped like this.

I think I've read most of these poems before, but you're contextualising them but juxtaposing them all; these urban scenes remind me of Eliot's Preludes.

fleur de l'est chapter 6 . 1/20/2010

Fernweh

Haha the 'ente aus Gummi' bit made me laugh xD Although it then got grave again. You capture details in such peculiar ways :)

fleur de l'est chapter 3 . 1/20/2010

Ok this is a very weird question, but do you read Chinese poetry? (Judging from the fact that you recommended me a Chinese/German song/poem, you probably do ) Because I've just realised that your use of nature is very much like what some classical Chinese poets used to do, except in Chinese poetry many aspects of nature had their set symbolic meanings, and modern western poetry is more liberal. But anyway, your poems (not this one though) are usually vague on the message and concentrate on the metaphor. You should have been born in ancient China ;P

Soo onto this poem. I loved it because it starts off again with descriptions of the natural world but finishes with a clear meaning, so does not leave me thoroughly confused again P I especially liked "Doch kein Winter währt ewig" - all good things must come to an end, but according to you, all bad things too )